Elder Advocates

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  • Full or part time working mother?
  • Is your life chaos taking care of an aging relative?
  • About to lose your job? Marriage? Mind?

Elder Care Management Tools
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information and tools in pdf format
about managing your aging parent or loved one.

Preparing for Your Initial Assessment

 

Elder Care Resources
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Elder Advocates Incorporated - Elder Care Management Services

Elder Care Management Research 
Elder Advocates Incorporated has compiled an extensive database of information on facilities, services and resources in the Central Florida and Orlando area including (Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia counties). The Elder Advocates Incorporated staff is committed to continually updating this database to ensure that you have current information available for making your medical and care management decisions.

Comprehensive Assessment  

For information about preparing for your initial assessment please click here.

In this process, the client's individual needs are evaluated and a written plan of care is developed.  The Comprehensive Assessment includes:

  • Medical and Social History
  • Medication Review
  • Functional Assessment
  • Safety Considerations
  • Financial Analysis
  • Benefit Eligibiity Assessment
  • Support System Assessment

During the assessment process, clients will receive a resource notebook for educational purposes.  Assessment can be done at our office location or offsite if preferred.

Care Management Services
This process utilizes our professional expertise to implement the customized care management needs developed in the Comprehensive Assessment. Care management services may include such activities as:

  • Consulting with physicians and other medical staff on client's behalf.
  • Making the necessary arrangements for facility admissions, transfers, and discharges.
  • Arranging for needed in-home services, modifications and equipment.
  • Medical monitoring of frail clients in crisis.
  • Arranging for needed in-home services, modifications and equipment.
  • Coordinating medical services when multiple disciplines are involved.
  • Acting as Health Care Surrogate for clients without loved ones to represent them in this capacity.
  • Negotiating with insurance companies for needed eligible services.
  • Reconciliation of billing issues
  • Advocacy of patient care in hospitals and facilities

Special Needs / Guardian Trust Consulting
We provide consulting services for Special Needs / Guardian Trusts of disabled clients of ALL ages.  These consulting services can include clinical assessments to identify medical needs and set up appropriate services, environmental assessments to identify needed home modifications, and assistance in aquiring appropriate needed medical equipment.

Medicaid Filing Assistance
This process involves assistance in determining public assistance eligibility, gathering and organizing the required paperwork, filing an application, and communicating with the caseworkers.

Routine Monitoring Of Clients  
This service involves consistent, scheduled visitation, and medical review of those seniors that live at home, or reside in a nursing home or assisted living facility. We physically visit the clients and consult with the caregivers / and / or medical staff. Chart reviews are done for nursing home residents, as well as.

Hospital to Home Care
Elder Advocates Inc. can assist you in advocating for your koved one by providing bedside care and skilled care management for the duration of a hospital stay and until your loved one is safely back at home. 

Estate Settlement
Elder Advocates Inc. can assist with the estate settlement of those who have no families to take care of this when they are gone.


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